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I am one of those who believe that a president’s job is one of the easiest. He is just there to supervise the work of his appointees. So, I don’t see the big deal in a president’s job.
I also believe anybody, with a little bit of sense,should be able to preside over the affairs of a nation. Especially, a nation like Nigeria, which lacks most of the basic things of life.
The president only needs to provide the needed basic needs and everybody will be happy. They will be so happy that they will forget to vote him/her out after eight years.
I often cry in my laughter when I see people kowtowing for ordinary men because they are presidents. I am amazed the more because they can not kneel down to worship God, their creator because the act will rumple their starch-stiffened brocades.
By the way, do these people know they could also occupy Aso Rock? Their knowledge of this simple fact will obviously save us a lot of hassles.
Furthermore, we are in search of quality materials for Aso Rock. I say this with all sense of responsibility. I don’t believe we have found good candidates yet.
The opposition’s representative: If the ‘evil genius’ had not supplanted him, what would the story of Nigeria have been like in 2015? He booted out a democratically elected government and he was not in a hurry to leave the corridors of power.
The incumbent…. He had good luck in every stage of his life. Fine. But he has had less luck with running this country. Nigeria seems to be too complicated for this gentleman.
Indeed, I tend to think he is too gentlemanly for this nation. Some people say that a person who’ll be successful at running this country must have street savvy.
When we consider the fact that our politicians find it so easy to change their political leanings, due to the fact that our political parties hardly have any ideological bends, it is my opinion that our two major political parties are two branches
of the same tree.
If we should put the presidential candidates in the second republic on the same row with the above-mentioned, who’ll be the last two?
Josiah Gilbert Holland was probably thinking about a nation like Nigeria when he wrote his timeless poem:
God, give us men!
GOD, give us men! A time like this demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith and ready hands;
Men whom the lust of office does not kill;
Men whom the spoils of office can not buy;
Men who possess opinions and a will;
Men who have honor; men who will not lie;
Men who can stand before a demagogue
And damn his treacherous flatteries without winking!
Tall men, sun-crowned, who live above the fog
In public duty, and in private thinking;
For while the rabble, with their thumb-worn creeds,
Their large professions and their little deeds,
Mingle in selfish strife, lo! Freedom weeps,
Wrong rules the land and waiting Justice sleeps.
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